I don't know about scripted access to KC search, but I can offer up some
Google search tricks for those of you that prefer that method over the
(still improving) KC search function. These are from a NaSPA deck I
helped present early last year...
IBM Knowledge Center allows you to use Boolean operators (AND/+, OR/|,
NOT/-, and so on) to create complex queries.
Example: "dynamic vipa" | dvipa
- Finds topics that contain the phrase dynamic VIPA OR the word DVIPA
anywhere in the text.
IBM Knowledge Center allows you to use search operators (intext, inurl,
intitle, and so on) to create complex queries that further refine your
search results.
Example: "dynamic vipa" | dvipa intitle:introduction | intitle:overview
- Finds topics that contain the phrase dynamic VIPA OR the word DVIPA
anywhere in the text AND that contain the word introduction or the word
overview in the title.
Each book in the z/OS library is assigned a unique identifier, which is
included in its URL. For example, book identifier e0zm100 corresponds to
z/OS Migration. You can use the inurl search operator and the book's
identifier to narrow the search results to a specific book. (The list of
book identifiers is included in the presentation but is WAY too long to
include here. Let me know if you're interested and I'll see if it's
still online anywhere.)
Example: "dynamic vipa" | dvipa intitle:introduction | intitle:overview
inurl:halz002
- Finds topics in the "z/OS Communications Server: IP Configuration
Guide" book that contain the phrase dynamic VIPA OR the word DVIPA
anywhere in the text AND that contain the word introduction or the word
overview in the title.
Tip: Book identifiers are also helpful during basic searching. If you
hover over a topic title link in the search results, the displayed URL
will contain the identifier of the containing book.
On 12/04/16 6:33 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 10:31:13 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
And as a side benefit, it does in fact work very nicely from an Android
device (and presumably also from an iOS device). (But unlike Doc Buddy, not
off-line.)
And also, as I said in another thread, it works for "everything," not just
messages.
I wonder how it compares to Google "<search terms> site:ibm.com",
which I've been relying on? Thanks for the suggestion. An unfortunate
"search terms" for site:ibm.com is "program management" which gives
a basket of deplorable MBA-stuff but hardly any binder hits on the
first page.
Years ago, I wrote a script to drive LOOKAT into Lynx which I had
ported to MVS. Nothing needed on the desktop except tn3270.
And there's Chicago Soft's Kwik-E-Ref (whatever) for $.
And John McKown lately pondered interfacing curl to ISPF Edit.
I just tried it. It works, sorta, on simple things such as cbttape.org.
I'm not much moved to try it on KC.
http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/
Where did we fall off the path!? I wonder whether Susan Shumway
has any thoughts on scripted access to KC search?
-- gil
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